Howat is a widely collected artist with works held in private collections throughout out the world from Cornwall to Philadelphia, London to Rotterdam, Nottingham to Berlin. Howat has exhibited in galleries in Cork Street Dorset, Cornwall, Leicester, Birmingham, Nottingham also the Barga International Arte Exhibition 1999 and 2000He attended an Art Certificate Course, Leicester University, and Post Graduate in Arts Practice Derby University. He has also studied alongside Cliff Holden who was a student of David Bomberg as well as a member of an art collective based in Sussex know as the Void Surfers.